THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
By REV. F. E. DAVISON
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PERMITTED
COMPROMISE.
International Bible Lesson for
Sept. 26, '09 (I Cor. 10: 23-33).
The golden
text foi this Ipb
Hon Is as fol
io wr: "Let every
ono of us plenso
his neighbor for
hla good to edl-
"0W
mm
llaitlon." This is
supposed to be a
temperance le'
son In the
scheme of the
Inter national
committee, and
the golden text
is 'veil chosen as
a keynote, though it Is doubtful if its
tearing will bo recognized at first.
Temperance, to nio.st peoplo mentis
total abstinence from intoxlcatin"?
drfnliH as a beverngo and prohibition
of tho manufacture, sain, and usa of
tf'.c same by the government. But
there is another large c lass of peopln
who declare, with the dictionary, that
temperance means the moderate uan
of anything, and that neither th(
KiMo, medical science or human Ms
tory support tho total abstinence
view. Uoth parties do agree that
tde abuse of intoxicants !s a curse, al
ways has been and always will be
and are a unit in the conviction that
tti use and sale should be restricted
to tho lowest possible point. There
Is a third clnss which stands for
swinish gratification of all bodily ap
petite, but they are a small minority
of society and need not bo considered
in this connection.
Radical and Conservatives.
JlVre then, are the two parties, tho
radicals and tho conservatives. The
onif class would brinish .lcohol from
iho fuce of the earth, knock in th:i
V-rul of every barrel, break every
Ix'Ulo. and destroy every form of In
t.irant, used as a brvi-rar"'. by every
tin m an being on this planet. The
other clans, would not moke men vir
tuous by removing the temptation,
but would educate, instruct and do-Tck-p
a race of men who would move
jm undisturbed and unharmed nrntd
Kfiirltuous temptations as Daniel in
the I. ion's den. Uoth parties desire
Itie same end. How enn It be reached?
Tertainly not by maintaining a
pitched battle among themselves.
Much of modern so-called temper
ance work Is verbal nbusv of tho oth
er side. Instead of bombarding the
common enemy, the temperance nl
n:f;,rs train their tuns upon those
who do not wear their uniform. The
conservative calls the radical hot
leaded, impracticable, fanatical, lie
is a disturber of the peace, a crank,
a lunatic, a one-idea man. And the
radical retorts in kind that the con
servative is nn old fo.'iy, behind fun
times, gone to seed, obsolete, out of
dte, a drag on the wheels of pro
gross, a heartless back number. Wo
bo.or this from pulpit and platfoi-.n,
we read It in paper and magazine
two forces ostensibly bent on righte
ousness, deliberately bombarding each
other.
If tho practical discontinuance of
the evils of intemperance is tho thing
alined at, why not bring to the cam
paign every available force. Why not
use Love, and Light and Law against
the foo, Instead of putting love and
'! at loggerheads, each crying out
ar 11st the other as a failure, and
neither doing anything to fight tho
curse.
Striking Illustration.
A recent Incident Is a ense In point.
A temperance orator known through
out the country as a radical prohib
itionist has made a public announce-tuf-.at
that henceforth instead of cast
ing his Influence In one diroction. and
in one direction only, lie proposes to
oiu hands with every man no matter
how far along he may be In his con
ception of civic righteousness, who is
honestly desirous of curtailing tha
rum power. He mado the point very
clear that he will not compromise;
wich the enemy but lie will com
promise with the brethren. And he
uses this Illustration. When tho sail
or is out on the high seis with deep
wmer under him, and no obstructions
anywhere he can sail as he pleases,
hut when he Is trying 'o mnko the
harbor, In company with all sorts or
craft headed for the same port, and
there are reefs and shoals In addition,
U Is absolutely necessary to yield to
others, to sheer off In this direction,
uttd even back up possibly at times
In order that he, and all his fellow
voy.-igers may safely make the port.
That Is, altogether a different spirit
tbnu hoisting the black flag, compell
ing every disagreeing captive to walk
the plank, Insisting that my way is
the only way, and thut all who dare
to think differently uro knaves or Im
beciles. In other words, instead of
antagonizing he proposes to comprom
ise with those who now see things
from a different angle than bis, with
tho Idea that possibly he himself may
roice to sco that wisdom will not die
with him, end that some other nieth
ed if it does not succeed, may at
least have such a fair trial that every
body will be satisfied of its Inefficien
cy. Compromise! Not with the ene
my, but with the brethren, that at
V.'nat Is a plan worth considering. la
not such compromize permitted T
WA8TE ON THE
FARM.
From authortatlve reports by gov
ernment ofllclals It appears that soma
2.G87.021 cattle die In the United
States annually from disease and ex
posure, most of them from npglect
From tho same source It Is also as
certained that the loss of sheep from
the same causes Is as great
These figures only serve to show
what a wasteful people we are. One
of the excuses the beef trust makes
for high prices of provisions Is the
enormous death rate of live stock on
the range and on the farm, most of
It due to pure trilllngness of the herds
men and the grazer. Indeed, the losses
for hlghby neglect and exposure gre.it
ly exceed the losses by disease.
It would be Impossible to estimate
tbu waste of farm products after they
mature in the Held, but it Is etiunuoin
somo of It traceable to thriftless
husbandry or. In plain speeches down
right laziness. Due source of waste
Is Imperfect cultivation, for millions
of farmers persist In half cultivation,
of large areas when they would make
more by 1 roper tillage of fewer acres.
Then there Is Immense waste In the
disregard of Intelligent rotation of
crops. This is the worst sort of wa.-tc,
for It means devastation of solis that
require years of provident tillage to
replace. All over tho Kast are aban
doned farms that would to-day be gar
dens If-they had been given intelli
gent cultivation. That farmer is not
lit for his vocation who does not In
crease the fertility of his soil every
year ho cultivates it.
THE INCORPORATION
OF TRUSTS.
In a sane argument for the Federal
Incorporation of Trusts, in the Atlan
tic, tho author says this does not nee
essarlly mean cither a federal license
or federal regulation for Interstate
corporations; it does not mean an ex
tension of federal government, though
It may mean tin exercise of tho re
strictlve power of the federal Con
gress. Federal government Is not
necessary If tho federal power' can bo
used to attack directly and logically
the real evil, the abused power of one
state to license an irresponsible cor
poration to do business in other states.
The simplest course is sometimes so
siuiple and so direct that, in our con
fusion or timidity in an Important
matter, we try to .alk around it. The
remedial federal law should be a sim
ple and effective attack on tho actual
abuse; It should bo a self-operating
and effective prohibiting law, stating
in detail the conditions of incorpora
tion, management, and governing
laws, necessary to enable a corpora
tion to depart from the state of its
birth to engage In Interstate com
merce, prescribing adequate penalties
and making void and uneuforclble by
a corporation any contract made iu
violation of its provisions.
THE 24-HOUR
CLOCK.
A manufacturing concern in which
only one-half of the employees work
in the daytime has a twenty-four-hour
clock In the timekeeper's office, by
which the work record Is noted. The
business day begins at 1 o'clock in
the morning, and when other clocks
indicate midnight this factory time
piece shows that it is 24 o'clock. Tho
! men who go to work at the time ordi
narily known as t p. 111. are recorded
as having started at 1 o'clock. Tho
people in charge of the work say that
this change In tho timekeeping meth
od lias prevented many errors, and al
though it took the men a little while
to become accustomed to it they now
speak of 14 and 16 o'clock In a matter
of fact way and without tho smilo
which at first the strange figures pro
voked. WOMAN, LOVELY
WOMAN.
Her waist begins just below nor
neck. Her hips have been planed off
even with the rest of her body. She
is usually buttoned up the back, and
around her neck she wears a section
of barbed wire covered with lace. She
wears on hor head a blond haystack
of hair and on top of this a central
dome with rings about the same size
as those of Saturn. She is sawthed
In asr gown liko an Indian papoose,
and on tho end of her feet are dabs
of patent leather. She walks on stilt
like heels with the expertness of a
tight-rope dancer. The pores of her
skin are full of line white powder.
This Is a woman.
OUR IMMUNE
JUDGES.
If a general jn tho battlefield com
mits a grave strategical blunder which
costs thousands of lives, tho world Is
thrilled with horror; but a Judge may
so misapprehend a critical situation as
to bring sorrow and suffering to un
numbered homes for generations, and
we dumbly acquiesce, as if viewing
a visitation from heaven.
SINGULAR HUMAN
NATURE.
It Is singular how anxious a man Is
to hide a scandal in his faintly until
he has committed a homicide, and
how anxious he is to rattlo the boues
of the skeleton after the killing.
A SUGGES
TION. Another thinr that might be done
with ex-Presidents is to put them in
charge of the Secret Service.
Mr. Charles . Capen, master of the
Boston Latin School, the son of a
Unitarian minister and tha youngest
of twelve children, fairly Illustrates
old-fashioned Unitarian psychothe
rapy. He has taught In one school
fifty-seven years and never lost a
day and at the oge of elghty-IKe Is
till teaching.
LACKAWANNA
RAILROAD.
"THE ROAD
OF
ANTHRACITE.
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mer months in Florida or California, call
upon our local ticket agent for particulars.
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that can bo done by hand only. Nine-tenths
of all job printing done in any country office must be
done by hand. It can't be done with a machine.
This office is fully equipped to do all kinds of print
ing at the lowest prices consistent with good work.
A Largo Stock is Carried in
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BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, SHIPPING TAGS,
BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, INVITA
TIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CARD BOARD,
. BOOK PAPERS, COVER PAPERS, &c.
And Everything in the Printing Line
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Dodgers, Posters, Sale Bills, Pamphlets, Books, Re
ceipts, Orders, Check Books, Ruled Work, Half
tones, Line Cuts, Engraved Work, Stock Certifi
cates, Bonds, &c, &c.
' No trouble to show goods and give estimates.
The Columbian Printing House,
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Entrance First Floor, through Roys' Jewelry Store.
Next to Bloomsburg National Bank. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Professional Card
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Columbian Building an. Flocr
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Bloomsburg, Pa.
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Ent B ailding, next to Court Howe
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FRED IKELER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAwJ
Office Over First National Bank
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W. H. RHAWN,
ATTORN E Y-AT-L A W.
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ATTORNEY-AT LAW.
Office with Grant Herring,
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Office Bloomsburg Nat'l Bank Bldg.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, INSURANCE,
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Office 116 North Street,
Bloomsburg, P,
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Ent's Building, Court House Square
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SURGEON DENTIST
Office Barton's Building, Main belo
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Office and residence, 410 Main St
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CENTRALIA, PA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office : Ent building, 11-16-99
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ATTORNIY-AT-LAW,
Office in Wells' Building, over W. McK
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Office and Residence, Fourth St.I
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